So many people are actually stuck. They are always day dreaming about the next great opportunity they can soar in, make a lot of money or be the boss of. Have you ever heard that walking around the office, the coffee shop or at a function of some sort.
These folks talk about doing something better, something of their own, maybe even making their hobbies into something big. Anything, so they can be their own boss. When you listen to them, they’re wide eyed, full of enthusiam and fired up. Do you ever see them like that at work? Oh I have.
My question is to all you dreamers, ‘why are you waiting for an opportunity, why don’t you just do it’!
Generally, there’s a long list of hold ups: mortgage, car payment, food … all the required functions of living and affording to survive, of course. However, what I am referring to is take your energy of your passion(s), and work on them when you’re not clocked in, a little at a time.
Apple Inc., didn’t go invest in a large 2 million dollar building, set it up with furniture & say we’re open for business. They started with high energy ideas in his garage. That’s all well documented about Steve Jobs and his best friend.
Ford Motor Company Inc., did not start with a muli-million dollar assembly building. Henry Ford was not even an engineer as had been written in the history books. Henry Ford started out as a teenager when he left home and apprenticed as a machnist and was mostly self taught. When he got a job with Edison’s Light Company- Edison Illuminating Company, he worked as a bookkeeper after stuying at a business school, then after a couple years Ford was promoted as an untrained ‘engineer’.
Now the interesting part of Henry Ford, he was always a day dreamer and a tinkerer. While working for Edison, he was also working in his own back yard with his buddies on something of his own, it turned out to be his first experimental car in that workshop behind his home in Detroit in 1896. When Henry Ford’s first vehicle was completed, it was actually a four wheel bicycle and was powered by a four-horsepower engine. Instead of a steering wheel, the Quadricycle had a tiller.
Well the rest is history as they say and Henry Ford took his love for tinkering in his off time, to a great American invention – the Automobile.
https://corporate.ford.com/history.html
Now more tinkering stories of one’s passions could continue here and I have many, but the point is this; You do not have to wait for an opportunity or a shiny bright perfect job to live your life. Find your passion, think about what excites you, what gives you energy, what makes you smile and not care if you miss any sleep thinking about it.
Every person on earth has a gift inside of them, an idea, a skill, a voice, a talent waiting to come to life. What you know and love inside of you is real and why not you, why shouldn’t you be the one to take that passion and bring it to life! There is no one on earth that can bring that passion to realization, like you because it is within you.
I am also not implying that you will be the next Steve Jobs or Henry Ford. I am saying this; do what you love, let your energy lead you to something productive that makes you happy in this short life we have. Let your passion guide you along the way.
Passions come from the heart, those passions get you fired up, make you feel different and full of enormous ideas. Go listen to your heart, get that fire going in your belly and do what you have been dying to do … now. This is your time, to do your thing and to live your life, now.
Don’t wait for an opportunnity, create one … linda frame
